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sewerino26

sewerino26

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Hello. I have an question about my bulb in room. Weather is normal,no storm etc. Today first time it flickered for 1 second. It happened when i close door in my room ( no more air ) Bulb looking like that:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Energiesparlampe_01_retouched.jpg

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Is this problem with electric in my house or it was bulb? It flickered ( black ) for 1 second and its fine. Should i worry? All deviced and pc working ok. My mother turned oven 2 hours ago,maybe something because of that?Bulb flickered 5 minutes ago.
 
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These bulbs start to flicker more often when they are getting to the end of their life, and it will probably soon die completely. In the UK, you are not supposed to throw these out in household rubbish, because they contain mercury, and we have special bins at the local tip / recycling centre, to put them in.
 
radderfire said:
These bulbs start to flicker more often when they are getting to the end of their life, and it will probably soon die completely. In the UK, you are not supposed to throw these out in household rubbish, because they contain mercury, and we have special bins at the local tip / recycling centre, to put them in.
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a ok thx
 
As above these do start flickering more and more frequently as they are on their way out - usually by that point there is a notable darkening (burned in) of the first half inch or so of the tube.
 
But somebody said this to me:"It appears to be a compact fluorescent bulb. They shouldn't flicker out as they have electronic ballasts but if it's temporarily overloading, the circuit might blink out for a second to cool, but more likely it may be a power wiring issue."


So maybe i have power wiring issue?
 
sewerino26 said:
But somebody said this to me:"It appears to be a compact fluorescent bulb. They shouldn't flicker out as they have electronic ballasts but if it's temporarily overloading, the circuit might blink out for a second to cool, but more likely it may be a power wiring issue."


So maybe i have power wiring issue?
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Could have just been a momentary drop in the supply.

These bulbs do start to occasionally flick off and on again when they are getting end of life which progressively gets worse and/or when turning on will be dim and flickering for several seconds before coming on properly we used to have several in the loft conversion in my old house for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0UYYnw9xhE

If it has quite a bit of dark discolouration near the base of the tube it is almost certainly getting toward end of life.
 
Last question.

Somebody said this to me:
" If it happened once yesterday and has been fine since then, then it's probably not the bulb, just a dip in the power coming to your home as Calliers said. I would expect that It was not the only light in the house that flickered."


But i observed that only in my room bulb flickered.
 
Hey i have another question. Today i turning off light in HALL ,just switched lightning to off in HALL and in the same moment,my bulb in room flickered for 1 second. I tried again 15 times <turning on and off bulb in HALL > to reproduce but this not happened again. Is this reason to worry or not?

Bulb in hall:
gls-bulb-500x500.jpg


Bulb in room:
Energiesparlampe-01-retouched.jpg
 
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